Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016

Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017 More…

The orchestra's sound under Vänskä has a kind of sharp-focus richness that's never cloying. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2016 More…

Hough joins forces with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons for a robust, grand reading that nonetheless leaves room for lyricism and introspection…[but it's in the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Frang has a beautiful tone and superb intonation, and in both concertos applies a satisfying range of colour - there's much to enjoy, technically speaking. The spiky, lonely atmosphere of the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Silesian lend vibrant warmth to [the First Quartet]…[and] handle [the later quartets] with precision and élan: a tremendous achievement — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Alive and articulate, these three performances remind us that it’s just as possible to be stunned by an original interpretation of a familiar symphony (the Fifth) as it is to be refreshed by... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

John Wilson shows an instinctive flair for Copland's syncopated and changing rhythms, and brings out all the music's broad humour and intimate poetry — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016 More…

An exemplary performance — Financial Times, June 2016 More…

It is difficult to imagine [these sonatas] better played — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Nelsons is spry and precisioned and his insistence on super-keen rhythm pays off big-time...The Fifth Symphony is quite marvellous...and like the Tenth should dominate the catalogue for a long... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…